Gasolene-delivery tank



K. W. SMITH.

GASOLENE DELIVERY TANK.

APPLCATION FALED AUG.3,19I7.

Patented May 4, 1920.

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KLEBER W. SMITH, 0F FREEPORT, MAINE.

GASOLENE-DELIVERY TANK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 4, 1920.

Application led August 3, 1917. Serial No. 184,230.

To all whom t may concern: Y

Be it known that I, KLEBER IV. SMITH, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Freeport, county of Cumberland, State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gasoleue- Delivery Tanks, of which the following is a specification. v

This invention relates to the dispensing of gasolene and like commodities, and particularly to apparatus for supplying such liquid fuel as gasolene, kerosene or the like to automobilists as is the common practice at a garage or roadside. n

The filling of a car tank from the ordi nary pump has offered such opportunities for short measure and for inferior or unfit fuel that there has been almost a premium on rascality and a corresponding cheating of the public both as to quantity and quality, so that the automobilists, when cornpelled to deal with a strange vender', if not actually cheated have been so in unpleasant apprehension of dishonesty. Likewise honest dealers have suffered from unfounded suspicion and have frequently lost trade and even reputation owing to the manner in which the transaction was effected.

It is the object of my invention to make it possible for the purchaser to actually see the commodity which he is pur chasing and correspondingly for the vender 'to display the goods which he is deliver ing. I accomplish this by providing a transparent intermediate tank so associated with the pump that when the desired amount of gasolene or other fuel is delivered into the tank it may not be surreptitiously withdrawn, tapped or fouled, but may be readily discharged into the tank of the automobile.

The construction and operation of my device will be more fully disclosed in the specification which follows. In the drawings I have shown a form of apparatus well adapted to practical service and which well illustrates the principles involved in my invention. Throughout thespecification and drawings like reference numerals are employed to indicate corresponding parts, and in the drawings:

The single ligure is a' partial vertical section of a supply outfit in accordance with my invention.

I have indicated at 1 a suitable head or casing within which is inclosed a pump P of well known type. The pump connects at 21 with a fuel storage tank 2 and has a delivery 81 which may be provided at any desired point with a valve 3. Mounted upon the head 1 is a plurality of spaced tubular supports 5 upon the upper ends of which a base 6 is mounted. rl`he base 6 is formed with an annular shoulder 7 providing a seat for a container 8, there being preferably interposed between the base 6 and container S a rubber or other suitable gasket 9.

The container S may be provided with suitable graduations, as by etching, and has its discharge mouth disposed in registry with a discharge passage 10 formed in the base 6 and to which passage a suitably controlled discharge pipe 11 is connected. In the embodiment shown, the control valve for the discharge pipe 11 is indicated at 12, and the pipe 11 is connected by any suitable union 13 with a discharge hose or other suitable connection 14 which may be carried to the tank of the automobile.

Fixed within the head or casing 1 and eX- ltending through the supports 5 are tie rods l. T he rods 4 extend along the side of the container S, terminating above the container and there being threaded, as indicated at ell, to receive a head or cover 15 for the container. The cover 15 has threaded thereinto a suitably formed pipe or coupling section 16 which, when the head 15 is in place upon the container, is adapted to be connected in any suitable manner, as by the union 17290 with the upper end of the pipe 31. The cover 15 may be provided with an air vent 18 and may be formed with a depending annular flange 19 adapted to engage the outer face of the container and center the cover thereon. If desired, any suitable gasket 20 may be interposed between the cover and container. In addition to their function of connecting the base 6 and cover 15, the rods l also serve to protect the container 8 against the breakage, constituting in effect an open frame work within which the frangible container is inclosed.

In the use of the device, the gasolene or other fluid is pumped from the tank 2 into the pipe 31 from which it discharges into the transparent receptacle 8 and out therefrom through the hose or other connection 14 to the tank of the automobile.

It will thus be seen that I not only provide against the possibility of the liquid being fouled, diluted or otherwise tampered with,

, at a service sta but insure that the purchaser may see not only the exact amount of i'uel which lie is contracting` for, but also the condition of tlie fuel, all in an apparatus of simple and inexpensive construction.

Various modiications in the form and construction ot my ir' *ention may obviously be resorted te itt Within the limits oi the appended. claims.

W hat I therefore claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. apparatus ter visibly displaying' inelasured quantities ot gasolene or the like sold ion, comprising in combina tion with the usual storage tank and pump at the station, a combination fuel-measuring and display container supported adjacent the storage tank into vnicli the gasolene is adapted to be pumped treni tlie storage tank and from which it is conducted to the gaso- `lene tank oi' the motor vehicle; said container beingy transparent to display V'the fuel as it is pumped tliereinto and liaving` a series of fuel-measuring graduations, a supporting structure for said container including` a plurality of spaced upriglits between which the container is mounted intermediate oi the ends thereof, and in inclosed protected relation and With its fuel-measuring)- graduations freely observable through the spaces between said uprights, a feed connection leading trein said storage tank into said container from above and a gravity discharge connection leading from said container from below.

Lessa-37e' 2. ln combination, a source oit supply, a plurality olf spaced. 3V g l a base mounted on said upriglits and buying au annular groove to receiie tlie lower edge of a container and having a discharge opening Communicating` with the interior oi" tlie container, transparent container supported on said base and inclosed within and protected by said upriglits and having` a series of graduations visibly exposed between said upriglits, and delivery coiinection Jrom said source oit sul'iply to the interior ot said container.

3. in combination, a source of supply, a iilurality ot spaced upright a base mounted on said unrilits between ne ends tnereoi and having au annular groove to receive the lower edge er a coiitainer having a discharge opeinno' wnimunic-iting vritli tne terior of tlie cont lier? a transparent conl'funer suunorted on said base and limlosed within and protected by said upriglits and having a series oi graduations visibly ei;- posed between said upriglits, a cover for said container mounted on the upper ends oi' said upriglits, and a delivery connection from said source of supply to the interior of said container.

ln testimony whereof l alli; my s? in presence of tivo Witnesses.

KLEBER Vif'.

li/'itnesses lll/lINERvA E, U'Aivmiiirr, Lor'rm B. Liner. 

